From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 22:43:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA13615 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:43:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA13595 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:43:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA01938; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:42:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:42:59 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: aheffner@lakefield.net cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems partioning In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970124182607.0069cd9c@lakefield.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Jan 1997 aheffner@lakefield.net wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD ver 2.1.6-RELEASE but when i go through the > install program and it asks me to make a partion for freebsd, i click on a > partion which says "unused" and type 'C'. And it asks me to type in the > size, which i use 100M, and then the type of partion. But it it doesn't make > the partion 100mb it makes it 0mb. I have about 200mb of free disk space > which should be more than enough. This causes a problem in the next step > when you have to create a file system or whatever. I tried making the > partion different sizes, in megabytes and in block size, but nothing seems > to work. It shows the partion was created and names it FreeBSD but it's 0mb. > Am i doing something wrong? I read all the help files, but nothing seems to > help. Are you sure you were typing it correctly? Normally it wants cylinders, but I believe you can cheat and put in megabyte values IF AND ONLY IF you immediately follow the value with "MB", ie "400MB" in caps. Could be wrong, tho.... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major